Open Thread – Saturday, 20 August 2022

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  1. Steve trickler says:

    Dust:

    A peculiar miracle binds together a pregnant nun in 1960s Ireland with a West Texas gas station attendant 25 years later.

    Sci-Fi Short Film “Holy Moses” | DUST | Starring Amanda Seyfried


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  2. Black Ball says:

    Adores Les enfants


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  3. Black Ball says:

    Knuckle Dragger upon north, any news?


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  4. mh says:

    Was Morrison being directed by the WEF and Klaus Schwab?

    Looks like our ‘democracy’ is a farce.


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  5. Shy Ted says:

    mh, similar to my thoughts. ScuMo taking on/over the various portfolios from ministers who might waver from the narrative. Essentially he’s declared himself a dictator and in all the portfolios he’s taken on decisions have been in lockstep with the Great Reset. I expect to see a contrived resignation in due course and a new life for him. One thing’s for certain is that none of these traitors could possibly live in their electorates safely with what’s to come. His little junket post election loss was likely just a meeting (you can’t say what needs to be said in terms of reward over the phone or video) to formalise where he goes and when. What amazes me is that there have been almost no incidents when the traitors are out in public, maybe a bit of abuse or harassment quickly subdued by their protectors. The joys of not forecasting where you’re going to be and when. And when they do travel, like Elbow to Brissy, the other day it’s so stage managed angry Joe Public wouldn’t know.
    Having said that, in my neck of the woods, I can’t see anyone waking up. But my neck of the woods is not normal or average in any sense.


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  6. Shy Ted says:

    From MWD –

    BRITISH AUTHOR COMPARES FORMER AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER TO HERPES – AND GETS LOTSA LAUGHS ON Q&A

    Johann Hari: Well, Scott Morrison seems a bit to me like herpes; just when you think it’s gone away it comes back worse than ever. [Grant and audience laughing]
    So, what are we paying for with this turd? Wiki –

    Johann Eduard Hari (born 21 January 1979) is a British-Swiss writer and journalist who has written for The Independent and The Huffington Post. In 2011, Hari was suspended from The Independent and later resigned, after admitting to plagiarism and fabrications dating back to 2001, and making malicious edits to the Wikipedia pages of journalists who had criticised his conduct.

    Anybody who kicks ScuMo for anything is fine by me. And that’s not an endorsement of the ABC turds. But really, is he a credible turd for Q&A?


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  7. Shy Ted says:

    Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
    I was thinking she should take some vigorous exercise.


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  8. Barking Toad says:

    Top 10!

    Lias’s sale – should be 70 cents, or ono.


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  9. Steve trickler says:

    You might want to skip the first 7 or so minutes.

    Sam Harris needs a kick in the guts for those comments…just catching up with it. He’s a ***t.

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    Fleccas Talks:

    THIS WEEK IN CULTURE #110


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  10. Steve trickler says:

    These blokes are on a mission from God.

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    Adventures with Purpose:

    COLD CASE: Missing person, Michael John Olson was last seen in West Palm Beach, Florida on December 1, 1979. He is from Edina, Minnesota, and had been a student at the University of Minnesota, studying business, but he was taking time off school when he disappeared.

    COLD CASE: 3 Target(s) Found Underwater | The Case of Michael John Olson


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  11. Steve trickler says:

    The Beauty of:

    Created by Steven Knight.

    Director of photography : George Steel, Simon Dennis, Laurie Rose, Cathal Watters, Si Bell & Peter Robertson

    The Beauty Of Peaky Blinders


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  12. Steve trickler says:

    A fine edit.👏

    Film – The Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
    Фильм – Властелин колец (кинотрилогия)

    Two Steps From Hell – Emerald Princess


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  13. mh says:

    Roosters beat Tigers 72-6


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  14. Steve trickler says:

    A bloke walking his dog.

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    woof bark growl:

    Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Danish Village in Solvang 5


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  15. Steve trickler says:

    The masks on those children piss me off!


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  16. Shy Ted says:

    So much excitement about Elbow’ trip to the Torres Strait and The Voice. Everyone in favour of it apparently. Very odd since the level of functional literacy and numeracy is less than 10%. Few people there could understand the words or concepts. Morbid obesity in adults is close to 100% as is the related prevalence of diabetes 2. Drug use is rampant and antisocial behaviour prevalent. Functional adults have usually had their education in mainland schools and colleges but, all in all, below average attainment. Employment is said to be about 50% but includes lots of public service non-jobs and make-work programs where attendance as we know it is optional. Many are categorised as “artists” and receive a stipend for attending the local art school/workshop, being unable to read or write. Fact is so many people are just too fat to work and have so many health-related problems they’re often off sick. Reports are that Elbow met a handful of dark-skinned kids. Most people up there are still very dark and recognisable as TSI and everyone lives a completely western and sedentary lifestyle. Shame because shools, police etc work very hard at sports for kids who remain there for schooling. Traditional ways? Almost non-existent, perhaps a turtle hunt in tinnies with outboards for a special occasion. Why are things so bad? Principally because potential mums and dads live such unhealthy lifestyles the offspring are born with actual health problems or strong predispositions for such. I used to wonder how, when the vast majority of the population could not read or understand a ballot sheet on election day, Labor kept getting reelected. But we know the answer to that.


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  17. Shy Ted says:

    I just watched Sports Sunday (on fast forward) for the first time in years. It’s a talk show about who cares what with a few minutes of women’ rugby action. Was hoping to see a bit of RL or AFL action with those big overnight scores, but no. The ads between segments were, of course, gummint ads, paid for by you and I.


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  18. Steve trickler says:

    Doc Coleman:

    They don’t want you to own a home
    19TH AUGUST 2022

    In the world of the Great Reset, ordinary people will not be allowed to own their own homes. The widely promoted principle ‘you will own nothing and you will be happy’ will apply to buying and owning any sort of property as much as it will apply to anything else.

    Prices of homes all around the world have been pushed very high as big investment companies have moved in and bought thousands of homes at a time – helping to push up prices and force out private buyers. At the same time, the quality of housing has fallen dramatically. Builders who obey EU laws about house construction invariably produce shoddy, poorly built properties which are not designed to last.

    It is worth noting that houses in Japan are built to last 30 years. After that they either fall down or they are knocked down and replaced.

    The process of destroying the long established principle of home ownership is already well under way. Interest rates are rising (and likely to continue to rise for years, as central banks appear to struggle to control the runaway inflation they created). Rising interest rates will make it more difficult for new buyers to get their feet onto the bottom of the property ladder and they will make it increasingly difficult for those who own homes to hang onto them. Constantly rising energy prices will add to the expense of owning a home – particularly if the home is old and poorly insulated. Banning Russians from property ownership will also reduce prices.

    Worse still, the Government in the UK is forcing 15 million house owners to make such massive and ruinously expensive changes to their homes that the only practical solution will be to knock down perfectly good, solid homes.

    The energy performance certificates which must now be linked to every home are to be revised in 2025 to include a variety of untested, unpopular, expensive inefficient eco-inventions which are popular with the conspirators (and the global warming cultists who represent their views in the media and the political market place).

    So, houses which have remote controlled thermostats will have a better rated energy performance. And so will houses which are fitted with heat pumps – the absurdly expensive to fit and expensive to run replacements for traditional gas boilers. Heat pumps cost up to £22,000 to have fitted and cost four times as much to run as gas boilers. Heat pumps also require electricity, and since most electricity will for many years be obtained from fossil fuels and from burning wood pellets (imported into the UK from across the Atlantic) the logic is difficult to understand.

    The absence of logic hasn’t stopped politicians embracing heat pumps (and many other absurd eco inventions) and those who choose to prefer more traditional, more sensible forms of heating a home will be punished.

    Landords who rent out homes have already been told that after 2027 it will be illegal to lease properties which are not highly rated. Within a few years, homes which do not satisfy the new requirements will be unsaleable. Home owners who don’t have a heat pump fitted will not be allowed to sell their home. Sadly, however, the cost of running a home fitted with a heat pump will mean that home owners who do have a heat pump fitted will not be able to sell their home because it will be considered too expensive to run.

    And, of course, the conspirators want us all living in high rise apartment blocks. There will be no pets and the apartments will be small and identical. Everything will be controlled centrally. And if the conspirators want to control the people living in an apartment building, they can do so easily by locking the entrance doors. This, of course, is what was happening in China in April and May 2022 when the authorities decided to pursue their absurd zero covid policy. Apartment buildings were firmly shut and the inhabitants were refused permission to leave.

    Home prices will fall notably over the next decade or so. The homeless will be forced into new, tiny, cardboard flats in approved city centres but if your social credit rating is poor you will find it difficult or impossible to rent a home of your own.

    So what does the future hold for those with poor social credit ratings?

    Well, of course, one of the principle tenets of the Great Reset is that the global population will be reduced to 500 million.

    But until then where will all the homeless live? Maybe in something similar to the debtors’ prisons which Dickens portrayed so well. Alternatively, the streets will be full of penniless, vagrant families wrapped in any clothes they possess. In cold weather they will keep warm with layers of cardboard and, if they are lucky, a tattered, dirty old sleeping bag or two.

    Taken from Social Credit: Nightmare on your Street by Vernon Coleman.

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  19. mh says:

    Andrew Tate has recently been banned from Instagram and Facebook.

    From 3 years ago

    Paul Joseph Watson

    Why they hate Tate

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qVQrPS2wHo


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  20. Steve trickler says:

    Avi:

    Heston Russell, who has come out as gay, said he was contacted by LGBTQ+ members from within the veteran community who were outraged that their individual identities were being used as a ‘virtue signalling’ statement at such a sacred memorial for all veterans.

    Former Commando CALLS OUT Shrine Boss


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  21. Steve trickler says:

    Tony Heller:

    Experts say we are experiencing the worst drought and heatwave in 1,200 years. The climate research team braved the dangerous conditions here in Wyoming this afternoon . Tough work, but someone has to do it.

    Scenes From The Megadrought


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  22. mh says:

    It’s a shame PJW stuffed up the audio on that vid, as Tate is an interesting guy.


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  23. mh says:

    #AnthonyPompliano #Pomp
    Andrew Tate Is The New Alex Jones
    1,279,789 views 3 Aug 2022

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq4cDv2cUoE


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  24. Shy Ted says:

    In the wake of Liz Cheney’ yuuge loss, tonight on SBS World Movies Ch32 – Daddy

    Vice 8:30PM – 10:55PM

    The true story of former US Vice President Dick Cheney, who used his power to reshape the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today. Featuring hilarious, uncanny portrayals of America’s most powerful players, this is a smart, irreverent film that will shock and entertain in equal

    Very good and revealing about his riches gained from the US
    starting and funding wars.


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  25. PerryJ says:

    It’s a shame PJW stuffed up the audio on that vid, as Tate is an interesting guy.

    Andrew Tate discussing anti-white racism


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  26. mh says:

    Courier Paywall

    UPDATEDGold Coast
    ID of ‘armed’ man shot by police who allege he ‘rushed’ them
    UDATE: Multiple police officers have fired shots at an alleged armed man who they say had “rushed” at them. His identity can now be revealed.

    And

    Man allegedly wielding samurai sword when shot by police
    A second allegedly blade-wielding man has been shot by police in Brisbane’s south, hours after a similar incident on the Gold Coast.


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  27. mh says:

    The Dive with Jackson Hinkle

    #JacksonHinkle #Ukraine #Russia
    andrew tate

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugBxhrBkPqg


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  28. Shy Ted says:

    Leeds Utd 3 Chelsea 0. I get dizzy when I stand up today. Watched a brief youtoob of it. Crowd going wild. Early 70s I was one of them. Except it was sunny yesterday. I don’t remember that.


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  29. Old bloke says:

    mh says:
    August 21, 2022 at 10:56 pm

    Queensland is being attacked by sword waving samurais? That will bring the tourists back to the Gold Coast.


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  30. Steve trickler says:

    After a two week search, Adventures with Purpose roll up and find her within a day.

    0:41

    Adventures with Purpose Dive Team: Kiely Rodni’s body, car found in Prosser Lake


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  31. Old bloke says:

    Max Igan interviews the husband of the lady who helped Grace Hughes leave the Northern Territory. It’s a rambling sort of an interview, the interviewee wants to talk about all sorts of other things and Max doesn’t bring him back to the topic of the discussion.

    Grace Hughes is Not Missing


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  32. mh says:

    Looks like this blog will soon be dead, buried, cremated.


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  33. Steve trickler says:

    Peter Santenello:

    Join me as we venture out to Eastern Idaho to the base of the Teton Mountains and meet a family who’s decided to raise their kids more traditionally. These free-range kids fish, hunt, farm, play in the dirt and live a life mostly away from the digital.

    Raising Free-Range Kids In Idaho 🇺🇸


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  34. mh says:

    They care

    Price drop on 400 everyday items

    Woolworths has decreased the price of over 400 everyday items to help customers keep up with the rising cost of living.


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  35. caveman says:

    Price drop on 400 everyday items

    Mainly lollies , chips , cup-o-noodles, biscuits , you know the staples.


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  36. Ragu says:

    Yep.

    After receiving a terse email from the owner about a subject that really should not have been so full of arsehole, im done.

    Australian blogging is done, kaput. Zeroed.


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  37. Ragu says:

    Add in the fact that no one knows what the fuck they are talking about.

    The other place has gone full anecdote with that moron joe abusing people with no rejoinder.


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  38. Steve trickler says:

    Greta has earned around a million backs pushing her handlers BS?

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    Tony Heller:

    Greta Thunberg says she is worried about Polar Bears. There is more Arctic sea ice now than there was when she was four years old.

    Good News For The Gretas


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  39. Ragu says:

    Good on Kaysee for having a go.

    It’s a natural blogger


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  40. mh says:

    I was enjoying this site, but once two or three regulars go it’s like a ghost town.


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  41. Ragu says:

    Wrap it up so we can all go over to the other joint and swap anecdotes because thats what blogging is about.

    Not me though, i wouldn’t go over to the place where the owner takes money from an arsehole. Thats you joe. And you dover.

    So fuck it. Goodbye


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  42. mh says:

    What happened to egg_?

    Is he blogging elsewhere?


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  43. Steve trickler says:

    Ragu, enjoy the walk.😉

    Stick around folks.

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    woof bark growl:

    Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Citadel Outlets outdoor shopping mall 9


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  44. mh says:

    I just checked out Admin’s email that was sitting in my junk mailbox.

    Looks like Adam wanted to canvass the opinions of the regulars before making a decision to wind up.


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  45. Steve trickler says:

    Keep the place running, Adam.

    Ladies and Gents, be yourself; post what you think is interesting or newsworthy and appreciate the place.


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  46. Steve trickler says:

    Another Kaitlin classic.

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    Liberty Hangout:

    Kaitlin Bennett and Joel Patrick visited Ohio State University on Halloween to ask students about Elizabeth Warren

    Elizabeth Warren Goes to College


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  47. JohnJJJ says:

    Robert Barnes in full fluency on USA law, corruption and FBI

    And Scott Ritter with Mercouris and Glenn Diesen, prepare yourself for two hours of incisive discussion on Europe and its downfall.


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  48. JohnJJJ says:

    Daughter in car explodes in front of his eyes. What is happening? Who is Aleksandr Dugin? I found this one hour explaining his philosophy. potlacht? I’d never heard of it.
    BTW – Robert Barnes( of course) has an interesting take on this ( see previous post)


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  49. mh says:

    Katie Hopkins OFFICIAL

    Ban Andrew Tate? Why not credit young lads with some intelligence?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28zSU0GU7Ik


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  50. mh says:

    The real reason Andrew Tate was banned from Facebook and Instagram – of course – was his views on Covid/lockdowns/Vax/New World Order/Ukraine.


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  51. Steve trickler says:

    A bloke walking his dog.

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    wolf bark growl:

    Cash 2.0 Great Dane at Lake Balboa 5


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  52. Travelin' man says:

    Steve trickler says:
    August 22, 2022 at 10:31 pm

    Cash 2.0 Great Dane at Lake Balboa 5

    May I ask, what is your fascination with this?
    It’s a slobbering big dog walking around.

    If I offend I apologize.


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  53. Travelin' man says:

    Travelin’ man says:

    Your comment is awaiting moderation.
    August 23, 2022 at 1:52 am

    Forget it mate.
    goodbye


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  54. mh says:

    Big sell off on Wall St overnight.

    Dow falls 643.13 points, almost 2%.


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  55. johanna johanna says:

    Apparently Avi got banned from NZ because of a decision by one border control officer. She said she had read an article in the NZ Herald which described him and Rukshan as right wing agitators peddling lies.

    It seems that NZ border policy is now based on opinion pieces in the local paper.

    What a disgrace.


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  56. Black Ball says:

    Anthony Fauci stepping down in December


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  57. mh says:

    “YOU TAKE [A VACCINE] AND A YEAR GOES BY, AND EVERYBODY’S FINE. THEN, YOU SAY, ‘OKAY ― THAT’S GOOD. NOW, LET’S GIVE IT TO FIVE HUNDRED PEOPLE’. THEN, A YEAR GOES BY AND EVERYTHING’S FINE. SO… WELL, THEN, LET’S GIVE IT TO THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE… AND THEN YOU FIND OUT THAT IT TAKES TWELVE YEARS FOR ALL HELL TO BREAKS LOOSE; AND, THEN… WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?”
    ~ Dr. Anthony Fauci (Feb. 1999) ― https://streamable.com/dr3wvh


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  58. Old bloke says:

    johanna says:
    August 23, 2022 at 7:51 am

    Apparently Avi got banned from NZ because of a decision by one border control officer. She said she had read an article in the NZ Herald which described him and Rukshan as right wing agitators peddling lies.

    It seems that NZ border policy is now based on opinion pieces in the local paper.

    What a disgrace.

    Rukshan also ran into problems at Melbourne Airport but NZ Immigration relented and so he’s in NZ now.

    Banning foreign journalists from entering a country is Stalinesque, things must be pretty crook over there.

    Rukshan arrives in NZ after passport FLAGGED trying to board flight


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  59. candy says:

    Pile-on on Scott Morrison continues. Despite him being on the sneaky side and no particular steadfast beliefs to lead on, I think he erred on the side of caution in spreading the ministries.

    COVID was an extraordinary time and things were done wrong but I tend to think most leaders were trying to minimise virus harm and not on an extensive personal power grab. Not sure about Dan Andrews though, possibly a different kettle of fish as he is basically a straight up socialist and more so if gets re-elected.


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  60. Steve trickler says:

    Stew Peters:

    Former Democrat millionaire donor, Steve Kirsch, drops bombshells about the vaccine genocide! The media is on the wrong side, and shoving the Truth about the vaccine under the rug.

    Odessa Orlewicz joins us today to discuss the doctors that are dropping like flies in Canada, and the culprit is the deadly vaccine forced upon them by the tyrannical government.

    Dr. Jane Ruby joins the show to detail the fibrous clots which are completely synthetic growths, causing thousands to drop dead!

    Albert Benavides joins to expose how the placebo injections were distributed to world leaders, and how VAERS is deleting huge amounts of data supporting that the vaccine is deadly.

    LIVE: They Can’t Hide MASS GENOCIDE: 17 Doctors DROP DEAD, Post Vax Clots “Not From This World”


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  61. Shy Ted says:

    Re shutting up shop. I’ve no idea how much work behind the scenes goes into keeping this going but thanks for your efforts. If it’s not worth it it’s not worth it. We don’t have to post anywhere but there are multiple other options.
    Where would I post such gems? (If you think that’s just a meme you need to take a stroll through a mental health waiting room.
    And a bit of advice on RE


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  62. JohnJJJ says:

    but I tend to think most leaders were trying to minimise virus harm and not on an extensive personal power grab. There is a third option. They didn’t know, and didn’t want to know. The senior bureaucrats didn’t know. Public disease is about statistics not compassion. The stats were never gathered correctly, the classification was ridiculous, fundamental factors (air? contact? density?) were mere guesses presented as solid fact. Exactly the same with ‘climate science’. I attended an international conference with experts (COVID) and they had no idea, but their jobs depended on presenting unassailable facts. That is why they and all the bureaucrats are terrified of any alternative opinion or hypothesis. It is built on sand.


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  63. Steve trickler says:

    Impressive 12 minute thought provoker.

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    Dust:

    Six students must complete their graduation from a utopian training facility by answering a devastating moral question.

    “academy” by Ian Salazar

    Sci-Fi Short Film “academy” | DUST | Online Premiere


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  64. Steve trickler says:

    Have a listen to this. True-freaking-evil.

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    Reverend Simon Sideways:

    These sick people recon the can reach orgasm watching a innocent baby being aborted, there is no pictures of this in this video only two sick women talking about it in what looks to be a podcast.

    Live ABORTION FETISH Live on only fans!


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  65. Steve trickler says:

    Some family history on Chucky Girl.

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    Tony Heller:

    Greta’s ancestor Svante Arrhenius started the global warming scam in 1896. It was debunked by Nobel Laureate Knut Ångström five years later in 1901, but the press picked up on it and have run with it (on and off) ever since.

    Three Centuries Of Greta’s Family Business


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  66. mh says:

    These sick people recon the can reach orgasm watching a innocent baby being aborted

    That’s one AOC video I won’t be clicking on.


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  67. Black Ball says:

    What has civilization come to when women get their rocks off watching abortion? FMD


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  68. Steve trickler says:

    As much as I despise the MSM, this was fair and balanced. Other MSM outlets are calling this team, amateurs!

    They’ve found 24 missing people in the last two years FFS.

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    Via Fox:

    Diver Nick Rinn recounts the moment yesterday, when he found what’s believed to be the silver CRV of 16-year-old Kiely Rodni, and remains inside, also believed to be her.

    Adventures With Purpose discusses missing teen


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  69. johanna johanna says:

    Thanks for putting up the Katie Hopkins clips, Steve.

    She is a breath of fresh air.


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  70. Steve trickler says:

    Good evening, johanna. 👍

    She’s been on fire lately.


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  71. Steve trickler says:

    👏 Fine edit.

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    Peter Gabriel:

    This montage of live performances of Solsbury Hill includes footage from Rockpalast (1978), Live in Athens (1987), Secret World Live (1993), Growing Up Live (2003), New Blood Live (2011) and Back To Front (2013).

    Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill (Live DNA)


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  72. Steve trickler says:

    A bloke walking his dog.

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    woof bark growl:

    Cash 2.0 Great Dane meeting new people in Marina Del Rey 17


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  73. Steve trickler says:

    Omeleto:

    James collects electric scooters around Los Angeles for his job, driving around the city in the morning to look for them, swapping them out for freshly charged ones, and retrieving used ones in the sometimes odd places they’re left behind. The job isn’t idyllic; it’s long, tedious work and he sometimes sees the worst of people as he goes about his day. And then at night, he comes home to an apartment filled with scooters, where he lives alone, equally isolated.

    But one day, as he pulls out an errant scooter from a tree, he encounters an abandoned dog. He rescues the dog and takes it home, but when his landlord comes by demanding money, James is told the dog has to go. There’s only one way to keep a pet at the complex: it has to be a service animal. So James goes about getting the dog certified as one — one that pulls him into unexpected emotional territory he may not be ready to confront.

    Written and directed by Mojean Aria, this deceptively quiet drama begins with an extended sequence of its main character going through his daily routine. Told with no dialogue but deliberate pacing and an eye for telling detail, gesture and expression, we see a reserved, taciturn James go about his job as an electric scooter collector. There’s a striking aspect inherent in such work, but it isn’t milked for whimsy by the storytelling. Instead, it is mundane, isolating and at times alienating, rendered in a flat yet bright naturalism and framing that emphasizes James’s isolation. The job does allow James to traverse many obscure pockets of Los Angeles, but this wide perspective often isn’t expansive, particularly when James encounters violence or suffering.

    Such everyday brutality wears on James, which suffuses even his home and private life, situated in a cramped, rundown apartment. His routine there is equally lonely, with his only human interaction being harangue and harassment for payment by his landlord. Still, he summons some small degree of compassion when he comes across an abandoned dog and takes her home. The pacing then picks up, particularly when James embarks on a quest to get the dog certified as an emotional support pet (which offers the opportunity for some dry, cynical humor.)

    We get the sense that James is already attached to the dog, enough to go about the task of certification with a psychologist. But the session goes in an unexpected direction, particularly as he faces personal questions about his state of mind and heart. The questions are uncharted territory for James, and actor James Aaron Oliver conveys the sense of a man unaccustomed to introspection.

    But he must answer the queries to keep the dog. In doing so, Oliver unfurls unspoken depths of feeling, resulting in a knockout of a performance that takes “Lucy” in a powerful direction that’s riveting, heart-wrenching and raw. What begins as a slice-of-life character portrait transforms into a truly moving distillation of living with “quiet desperation,” and how silent pain, sadness and loneliness build up into depression — a process so incremental that its bearer doesn’t even realize what it is or what is happening. Watching James confront himself, perhaps for the first time, resonates in its evocation of a difficult truth: we all carry burdens of strain and stress, and facing that reality with honesty is keenly painful. But it may be the first necessary step to move out of the shadows, towards something bigger and better.

    A lonely man discovers an abandoned dog that gives him a new outlook on life. | Lucy


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